Game apparatus



(NoMbdeL) J. Q. BROWN, Jr.

GAME APPARATUS.

No. 543,722. Patented July .30, 1895.

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JOHN Q. BROWN, JR., OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,722, dated July30,1895.

Application filed April 29, 1895.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Q. BROWN, Jr., a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California,have invented an Improvement in Game Apparatus; and I hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a game apparatus; and it consists in certaindetails of construction, which will be more fully explained by referenceto the accompanying drawings, in which' Figure 1 is'a view of the board.Fig. 2 is a View of one of the pack of cards.

This invention is a device or game representing a trial in court inwhich a widow is attempting to uphold the will of her husband in her ownand her childrens favor against a counter claim of a contestant whobrings a child into court to claim a portion of the dead millionairesmoney.

The game is played upon the chart or gameboard by the use of cards inconnection with the board, which is subdivided into six independentseries of unequal numbers of sections and five independent singlesections. In conjunction with this board and series of sections arefifty-two cards having marked upon them pictures, figures, or wordscorresponding with the various sections. These cards consist of sixsuits of an unequal number in each suit, and five independent cardscorresponding with the independent sections upon the board.

The subdivisions of the board consist, first, of the judges suit. Thiscomprises section A, representing the judge; B, the clerk of the court;C, the stenographer; D, the bailiff, and E the witness. The second suitis called the j urymens suit, and consists of twelve sections, marked F,numbered from one to twelve. The third is the spectators suit,comprising eleven sections, marked G, numbered from one to eleven. Thefourth suit comprises the members of the bar, marked H, consisting ofnine members, numbered serially. The fifth is the reporters suit, markedI, numbered from'one to four. The sixth is the widows suit, comprisingthe widow J, the widows boy K, the widows girl L, the widows maid M, thedetective N, the widows friend 0, and the last Serial No. 547,552. Nomodel.)

subdivisions consist of the independentcards, comprising the widowslawyer P, the contestants lawyer Q, the contestant R, the contestantschild S, and the policeman T. These various suits are arranged insubdivisions and sections upon the board, as shown.

The object of the game is to so play the cards upon the chart as to doone of three things: first, to have the widow win, thereby sustainingthe will; second, to have the contestants child win, thereby breakingthe will, and third, to hang thejury, which is to have one of theplayers play all of his cards out without seating either the widows orthe contestants lawyer, which latter must be done according to the rulesof the game before either the widow or the contestant can win. In orderto seat either of these lawyers, it is necessary first to seat the courtand court officers and the members of the jury. The spectators, membersof the bar, reporters, and other suits are used to prevent or assist inthese endeavors.

The game may be played by two or more individuals. To explain the gameit may be supposed that the parties playing it are four in number,playing as partners, and the cards, after being shuffled and cut in theusual manner, may be dealt around, as in whist, one to each personsuccessively, until exhausted. It

will then be the effort of those controlling the widows or contestantssuits to either assist or prevent the seating of the court and jurymenssuit, as their interests will best be conserved by so doing.

It is necessary in playing the various suits to play the cards in theorder in which they stand, as l 2 3 4, &c. Thus one of the players mayhold the first two of the j urymens suit, and not having N0. 3 may holdany number beyond that. He could play in his turn No. 1 of the jury, andhis next turn No. 2, and at the next the party opposed to him holdingNo. 3 could thereafter play whatever they held in either of the othersuits in the proper order and withhold No. 3 as long as possible, thuspreventing the completion of the jury; but if at any time during thegame they have exhausted all their cards which they can play in propersequence they will then be obliged to play No. 3, which will then allowthe other contestant tocomplete, the

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jury, so far as he holds them in his band. In the same manner the judgessuit may beheld back, the various characters represented upon the boardbeing seated as the state of the game dictates, and used to prevent thecompletion of the important suits, which must be completed before eitherof the widows or contestants lawyers can be seated.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A game apparatus comprising a board orchart subdivided into anu'mberot series, comprising each a number ofsections, each numbered from first to last, and other unnumberedindependent sections marked upon the board in suitable relation with theseries.

2. In a game apparatus, a board or chart having marked upon it a numberof series, comprising each a diiterent number of sections, each numberedfrom first to last, other series comprising independent unnumberedsections, and a number of independent sections not forming any series. I

3. In a game apparatus, a board or chart having marked upon it a numberof series comprising each a different number of sections, each numberedfrom first to last, other series comprising independent unnumberedsections, and a number of independent sections not in series, incombination with cards marked and designated to correspond with thedifferent series and sections.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

' JOHN Q. BROWN, JR.

Witnesses;

GEO. II. STRONG,

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